B-Wise wrote:Good to know. I haven't gotten any of the NI or Spitfire plugs, but I plan on getting the at least 1 of the Sf. I guess if look at each company engine as one big-ass synth & each plug is like a those sound cards on the old Roland Jv/Xv & EMU romplers from the 90s. So I'm cool with their approach & with the 10-day trial you can sense what pack of waveforms work for you.
The NI plugins all have the same 'engine' created (presumably) by AIR. They take the raw wav files from the original Kontakt instrument and effectively use them to create 100 little keygroup instrument presets that can be played and somewhat edited through the engine. These keygroups are very basic, single layer with note stride 3. (as were the original kontakt instruments).
So really what you are getting is a custom keygroup player that routes you to a plugin UI rather than use the native keygroup track engine. If Akai were to offer a way of customising the keygroup track UI we could make instruments like Analog Dreams all day long. For example, my
Vintage Synth Odyssey expansions each feature 100 keygroup instruments built around a similar structure (1 to 4 layers, note stride 3, lots of FX and editable params for customisation), so converting these would be easy.
I did notice that Tom Nice Things (Akai Force youtuber now on the Akai dev team) made a casual remark about how with the oscillator update we just need custom UIs for keygroup tracks, so maybe this is a hint that this is happening...
